On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 15:51 +0100, Olivier Mueller wrote: > Hello, > This afternoon I wanted to upgrade to 7.1 two good old dell PowerEdge > servers which were running FreeBSD 6.x. It went fine and quickly on the
There's already discussion about this in the archives. We're aware and working on it. Set: /boo/loader.conf kern.cam.scsi_delay=20000 As a work-around for now. Tracking the megarc memory corruption (and general amr(4) problems with the PERC4) at: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=128082 ~BAS > poweredge 1950, but it failed completely on the poweredge 1850. > > Facts: > > - boot cd and setup / operation of freebsd 6.x or 7.0 is fine > Message log abstract: > $ uname -v > FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p7 #0: Sun Dec 21 08:31:52 UTC 2008 > [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > $ dmesg|grep amr > amr0: <LSILogic MegaRAID 1.53> mem > 0xd80f0000-0xd80fffff,0xdfde0000-0xdfdfffff irq 46 at device 14.0 on pci2 > amr0: Using 64-bit DMA > amr0: [ITHREAD] > amr0: delete logical drives supported by controller > amr0: <LSILogic PERC 4e/Si> Firmware 521X, BIOS H430, 256MB RAM > amr0: delete logical drives supported by controller > amrd0: <LSILogic MegaRAID logical drive> on amr0 > amrd0: 69880MB (143114240 sectors) RAID 1 (optimal) > Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/amrd0s1a > > - boot cd of 7.1 fails because the installed doesn't see any harddisk. > Message log abstract: > amr0: adapter is busy > amr0: adapter is busy > amr0: delete logical drives supported by controller > > > I also tried to setup 7.0, and then upgrade to 7.1 with freebsd-update, > but then it fails exactly like with the 7.1 boot CD > (7.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso). Screenshot: > http://omx.ch/om/stuff/pe1850bsd71error.jpg > > BIOS Message about the Controller on system startup: > PowerEdge Expandable RAID COntroller BIOS, (c) 2006 LSI Logic > Corporation > > I'm not sure what I can try next... I'd still like to be able to run > 7.1 on this host as well as on several other old but still fine 1850. Is > my system simply too old? Why is my adapter "busy" under 7.1? What > would you try? I checked the relnotes as well, but saw nothing helpful > about my problem there. > > regards & thanks in advance for any feedback, > Olivier > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
